EIF'S National Colorectal Cancer Research Alliance News

• Only One State Passed Legislation in 2009 Requiring Insurers to Cover Costs of Colon Cancer Screening

  March 9, 2010

  Many States Putting Critical Lifesaving Legislation on Hold While Waiting for Congress to Act on Health Care Reform WASHINGTON – March 9, 2010 – Progress towards nationwide, state-mandated coverage of colon cancer screening according to accepted medical guidelines has slowed to a crawl as state legislators await the outcome of the health care reform debate at the federal level, a coalition of public health associations and medical professional societies reported today.  With a better grade for only a single state – Vermont – 2009 marks the least improvement in a single year since the Colorectal Cancer Legislation Report Card began in 2004.  ...

• Tennis Legend John McEnroe Tells Men to "Get Serious" About Prostate Cancer

  August 27, 2009

  PHILADELPHIA, PA --- Teaming With Health Organizations To Make Men Aware of New Guidelines: Talk With Doctor About Prostate Cancer At Age 40 Seven-time grand slam winner John McEnroe, whose father was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2006, is providing his voice and image to a new campaign that promotes recently updated prostate-cancer screening guidelines. One in six men in the United States will be diagnosed with prostate cancer 1 during their lifetime, and prostate cancer is the second-leading cause of cancer death among American men. 2 The updated American Urological Association (AUA) guidelines have lowered the age (from 50 to 40) 3 for when a man should start being monitored...

• Actor Terrence Howard is the newest ambassador for the Entertainment Industry Foundation's National Colorectal Cancer Research Alliance

  March 19, 2009

  LOS ANGELES --- Golden Globe® and Academy Award®-nominated actor and musician Terrence Howard, an ambassador for both the Entertainment Industry Foundation's National Colorectal Cancer Research Alliance and Stand Up To Cancer, has joined Screen for Life, a campaign in partnership with the Center For Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), to urge Americans to be screened for colorectal cancer. Terrence has a personal connection to the disease; in new print and broadcast public service announcements, he talks movingly about losing his mother to colon cancer, saying, "Let my heartbreak be your wake-up call." His PSAs are the latest in this Screen for Life PSA series;...